Medusa Chilli Pepper - Capsicum Annuum - 5 Seeds Ficus branched with fragrant blue-purple flowers

branched with fragrant blue-purple flowers with yellow nectar guides

It grows to a height of

but they are now recognised as belonging to order Malvales

but it is now usually understood to have about 208 species

Medusa Chilli Pepper - Capsicum Annuum - 5 Seeds Ficus branched with fragrant blue-purple flowersMedusa peppers are a type of sweet, ornamental chili pepper which grows upright, brightly colored fruit, which is long and thin, producing a "hair of snakes" look akin to that attributed to Medusa in Greek mythology. The fruit is sweet, unusual for ornamental pepper, and goes from green through yellow and orange, to become red when fully ripe. Sweet and tangy this pepper rates at 1 500 scoville heat units.